Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 12 se­cu­ri­ties of which six ad­vanced, two de­clined and four trad­ed firm.

Since the an­nounce­ment of Petrotrin’s clo­sure, I have seen sev­er­al re­ports dis­cussing the eco­nom­ic and fis­cal im­pact on gov­ern­ments books and the long-term im­pact on the over­all health of the T&T econ­o­my.

As a coun­try with a well-de­vel­oped econ­o­my, T&T is not on­ly ide­al­ly placed to strength­en re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion, but has a du­ty to do so, the Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes told Ox­ford Busi­ness Group (OBG).

Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 12 se­cu­ri­ties of which six ad­vanced, one de­clined and five trad­ed firm.

SAN FRAN­CIS­CO—Ap­ple is ex­pect­ed to un­veil its biggest and most ex­pen­sive iPhone on to­day as part of a line­up of three new mod­els aimed at widen­ing the prod­uct’s ap­peal amid slow­ing sales growth.

While Gov­ern­ment has kept the “ship of state steady” thus far, se­nior econ­o­mist Dr Ronald Ramkissoon says to ac­cess much need­ed in­come, more ef­fort must be made in col­lect­ing out­stand­ing monies. He said the Dr Kei­th Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion had help in re­main­ing afloat, pri­mar­i­ly due to the in­creas­es in the prices of oil and nat­ur­al gas.

Over­all Mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 14 se­cu­ri­ties of which two ad­vanced, six de­clined and six trad­ed firm.

Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 15 se­cu­ri­ties of which five ad­vanced, two de­clined and eight trad­ed firm.

Over­all Mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 14 se­cu­ri­ties of which two ad­vanced, six de­clined and six trad­ed firm.

Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 15 se­cu­ri­ties of which five ad­vanced, two de­clined and eight trad­ed firm.

Any at­tempt to shut down T&T will fur­ther hurt the econ­o­my, the Em­ploy­ers’ Con­sul­ta­tive As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ECA) warned yes­ter­day.

The pri­vate sec­tor is warn­ing of neg­a­tive con­se­quences for the coun­try if trade unions go ahead with plans for a shut­down of the coun­try to­day. Var­i­ous busi­ness groups have is­sued state­ments ex­press­ing con­cern about the reper­cus­sions of the Rest and Re­flect ac­tion be­ing spear­head­ed by the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) with sup­port from var­i­ous trade unions.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do moved in­to sole pos­ses­sion of top spot in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Shell/First Cit­i­zens Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) with a 3-1 whip­ping of Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary at Guaracara Park, Pointe-a-Pierre, yes­ter­day.

The Trinidad Der­by will be run off on Mon­day and the an­tic­i­pa­tion among the rac­ing pub­lic that we will wit­ness a fourth Triple Crown win­ner since the cen­tral­iza­tion of rac­ing is ex­pect­ed to bring out a mas­sive crowd to San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma.

Sports Min­is­ter Sham­fa Cud­joe has hailed the na­tion’s sports­men as true am­bas­sadors who unite the cit­i­zen­ry and gen­er­ate op­ti­mism and hope when times get tough.

Jinelle James, man­ag­er of the T&T women’s team to con­test the CON­CA­CAF Women’s Cham­pi­onships which will be a qual­i­fi­er for the FI­FA Women’s World Cup in France, has sought to clear her name from blame at­trib­uted to her for the team’s fail­ure to sub­mit a pro­pos­al for fund­ing to the Min­istry of Sports and Youth Af­fairs.

A to­tal of 1,000 crick­et bats will be giv­en away in cel­e­bra­tion of the achieve­ment of Amer­i­can crick­eter Muham­mad Ali Khan. This was dis­closed by chair­man of Crick­et Coun­cil USA (CCUSA) Ma­ham­mad Qureshi to Guardian Sports yes­ter­day.

This is ex­act­ly what the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers did last evening, as they were crowned 2018 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League cham­pi­ons with vic­to­ry over the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

Cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers have got­ten four picks on the 2018 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) All-Star team.

Yes­ter­day, the words, con­cepts and ideas were com­ing fast and fu­ri­ous as the pre­sen­ters on day one of the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) and As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (ANOC) Olympic Mar­ket­ing Sem­i­nar got un­der­way at the head­quar­ters of the Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (NOC) of Spain.

A to­tal of 1,000 crick­et bats will be giv­en away in cel­e­bra­tion of the achieve­ment of Amer­i­can crick­eter Muham­mad Ali Khan. This was dis­closed by chair­man of Crick­et Coun­cil USA (CCUSA) Ma­ham­mad Qureshi to Guardian Sports yes­ter­day.

This is ex­act­ly what the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers did last evening, as they were crowned 2018 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League cham­pi­ons with vic­to­ry over the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

Cham­pi­ons Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers have got­ten four picks on the 2018 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) All-Star team.

Yes­ter­day, the words, con­cepts and ideas were com­ing fast and fu­ri­ous as the pre­sen­ters on day one of the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) and As­so­ci­a­tion of Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tees (ANOC) Olympic Mar­ket­ing Sem­i­nar got un­der­way at the head­quar­ters of the Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (NOC) of Spain.

Curled up in a ball, with heat pads that are nev­er enough, I force my­self to “stick through it”; sound fa­mil­iar, ladies? Every woman has a month­ly strug­gle where we have to act like noth­ing is go­ing on when in re­al­i­ty we are deal­ing with every­thing that is men­stru­a­tion. The symp­toms we each ex­pe­ri­ence dif­fer from a walk in the park to go­ing to the hos­pi­tal for the pain and un­for­tu­nate­ly, I was the lat­ter.

Kids love eat­ing out! And it's usu­al­ly be­cause eat­ing out means they get to in­dulge in treats that they wouldn't usu­al­ly get at home. Restau­rants en­cour­age hap­py chil­dren by cre­at­ing a spe­cial menu with child-friend­ly op­tions like mac and cheese or chick­en nuggets. While the child's menu can elim­i­nate the meal­time squab­bles, there are a few rea­sons why I think you should avoid it:

Fe­ta, a briny white cheese from Greece, is usu­al­ly made from a mix­ture of goat and sheep’s milk. The tangy flavour of the cheese lends well to both un­cooked and cooked prepa­ra­tions and is unique­ly won­der­ful in dessert.

The prostate is a wal­nut-sized gland lo­cat­ed be­tween the blad­der and the pe­nis that serves a role in sex­u­al re­pro­duc­tion. A ma­lig­nan­cy or can­cer is a dis­ease where cells in the body grow out of con­trol. A ma­lig­nan­cy that de­vel­ops from the tis­sues of the prostate gland is known as prostate can­cer and is one of the most com­mon can­cers and cause of death among men world­wide. Fac­tors that put males at risk of de­vel­op­ing this can­cer are age (>55-69 years of age), ge­net­ics (a fam­i­ly his­to­ry of prostate can­cer) and race (African an­ces­try). What makes this can­cer a silent killer is that, many men with it may nev­er de­vel­op symp­toms un­til ad­vanced dis­ease has set in. The epi­demi­ol­o­gy of prostate can­cer in the pop­u­la­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), with its di­ver­si­ty in an­ces­tral groups, has not yet been de­scribed. How­ev­er, based on case re­ports, the mor­tal­i­ty rate is pre­sumed to be one of the high­est in the world. This would in­di­cate a high in­ci­dence and preva­lence of prostate can­cer in T&T, putting a large num­ber of Trin­bag­on­ian males with­in a high risk group for prostate can­cer. Be­ing a high risk group of such a fa­tal dis­ease that of­ten is symp­tom­less, would mean that screen­ing for this dis­ease is es­sen­tial to di­ag­nose it at an ear­ly stage so that prompt, ef­fec­tive and ap­pro­pri­ate treat­ment can be in­sti­tut­ed to pre­vent it be­ing a cause of death (by spread­ing).

A chef’s tools, specif­i­cal­ly the chef knife, is con­sid­ered an ex­ten­sion of the chef him/her­self. Af­ter years of use and prac­tice, sea­soned chefs gain the abil­i­ty to use their knives with the flu­id­i­ty of a mas­ter painter’s brush stroke. On the oth­er hand, the av­er­age home cook may ca­su­al­ly chop or dice items the fastest way they can which of­ten re­sults in the fi­nal prod­uct lack­ing uni­for­mi­ty or con­sis­ten­cy. Pro­fes­sion­als prac­tice prop­er knife tech­niques for a few rea­sons in­clud­ing the fact that uni­form­ly cut items will al­so cook uni­form­ly, they are more vi­su­al­ly ap­peal­ing and re­sult in an over­all high­er qual­i­ty, end prod­uct.

Pop­corn is coat­ed in a sweet, sticky syrup in­fused with the flavours of vanil­la and bour­bon—giv­ing the pop­corn a gourmet up­date. Crum­bled ba­con adds a crisp salti­ness mak­ing the snack in­cred­i­bly moor­ish. It’s ba­con, bour­bon and caramel, noth­ing can be bet­ter. Make a batch and spoil your friends at your next movie night.

FIT & FAB

To­day I want to share some thoughts on the bat­tle of the bulge, which is be­ing waged every day by peo­ple of all ages around the world. “My doc­tor told me to stop hav­ing in­ti­mate din­ners for four,” says Or­son Welles, “un­less there are three oth­er peo­ple.” Here in Car­ni­val coun­try, the bat­tle be­gins for many peo­ple right af­ter the Christ­mas eat­ing in­dul­gence. De­pend­ing on when the Car­ni­val falls crash di­et­ing and of­ten ex­ces­sive ex­er­cise be­gins. It is great to see the flur­ry of phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty around the Sa­van­nah and on hills and green spaces around the coun­try. If a group or a hand­ful of peo­ple re­main com­mit­ted to lifestyle change post Car­ni­val that's a bonus. Their fit­ness will im­prove and the health ser­vices may ben­e­fit as well. So why should we want to main­tain an ide­al weight? It is a fact that fit peo­ple be­come ill and that slim and skin­ny are not nec­es­sar­i­ly syn­ony­mous with health. While it may be easy to take so­lace in a thin­ner weight, many of the se­ri­ous risks as­so­ci­at­ed with poor­er health are of­ten hid­den from plain sight. Ex­ces­sive salt and sug­ar con­sump­tion, for ex­am­ple, is as­so­ci­at­ed with sev­er­al health prob­lems, which can oc­cur with­out vi­su­al cues and can de­vel­op ir­re­spec­tive of one's weight.

CMT is chang­ing their Artists of the Year show to ho­n­our on­ly women, in­clud­ing Car­rie Un­der­wood, Mi­ran­da Lam­bert, Kelsea Bal­leri­ni, Maren Mor­ris, Karen Fairchild and Kim­ber­ly Schlap­man of Lit­tle Big Town and Hillary Scott of La­dy An­te­bel­lum.

FIT & FAB

To­day I want to share some thoughts on the bat­tle of the bulge, which is be­ing waged every day by peo­ple of all ages around the world. “My doc­tor told me to stop hav­ing in­ti­mate din­ners for four,” says Or­son Welles, “un­less there are three oth­er peo­ple.” Here in Car­ni­val coun­try, the bat­tle be­gins for many peo­ple right af­ter the Christ­mas eat­ing in­dul­gence. De­pend­ing on when the Car­ni­val falls crash di­et­ing and of­ten ex­ces­sive ex­er­cise be­gins. It is great to see the flur­ry of phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty around the Sa­van­nah and on hills and green spaces around the coun­try. If a group or a hand­ful of peo­ple re­main com­mit­ted to lifestyle change post Car­ni­val that's a bonus. Their fit­ness will im­prove and the health ser­vices may ben­e­fit as well. So why should we want to main­tain an ide­al weight? It is a fact that fit peo­ple be­come ill and that slim and skin­ny are not nec­es­sar­i­ly syn­ony­mous with health. While it may be easy to take so­lace in a thin­ner weight, many of the se­ri­ous risks as­so­ci­at­ed with poor­er health are of­ten hid­den from plain sight. Ex­ces­sive salt and sug­ar con­sump­tion, for ex­am­ple, is as­so­ci­at­ed with sev­er­al health prob­lems, which can oc­cur with­out vi­su­al cues and can de­vel­op ir­re­spec­tive of one's weight.

CMT is chang­ing their Artists of the Year show to ho­n­our on­ly women, in­clud­ing Car­rie Un­der­wood, Mi­ran­da Lam­bert, Kelsea Bal­leri­ni, Maren Mor­ris, Karen Fairchild and Kim­ber­ly Schlap­man of Lit­tle Big Town and Hillary Scott of La­dy An­te­bel­lum.

Though they are com­mon­ly eat­en for break­fast in Louisiana, these beignets are per­fect for any time of the day. Fry un­til the beignets are pil­lowy soft on the in­side and gold­en-brown on the out­side then, heav­i­ly dust them with sweet, pow­dered sug­ar. Pop in your mouth while they’re hot and de­light­ful.

Af­ter a suc­cess­ful first run and play­ing to sold out hous­es at Queen’s Hall last week­end, RS/RR Pro­duc­tion is repris­ing Mind Yuh Busi­ness at Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do, for an­oth­er two nights, on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day.

Ar­riv­ing re­cent­ly in T&T, I be­gan to see some cu­ri­ous cas­es. One day a fa­ther came in with his two-year-old son, who ap­peared quite nor­mal, strong and ac­tive. He was con­cerned about the an­tibi­otics his son had been tak­ing for the past year. He opened a large bag and be­gan pulling out emp­ty bot­tles. There were 12. One for each month of the year. This healthy ap­pear­ing two-year-old had been put on an an­tibi­ot­ic every month for a year by his doc­tor.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith’s warn­ing to of­fi­cers who bring the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in­to dis­re­pute is yet an­oth­er good sign that he is com­mit­ted to be­ing a change agent with­in the ser­vice.

Sen­ate Vice Pres­i­dent Nigel de Fre­itas sprang in­to ac­tion im­me­di­ate­ly as UNC Sen­a­tor Wade Mark launched an out­burst in Sen­ate yes­ter­day.